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وهو قوله: ” حتى إذا ساوى بين الصدفين قال انفخوا حتى إذا جعله نارا ” إلى قوله: ” نقبا ” فقال ذو القرنين: ” هذا رحمة من ربي فإذا جاء وعد ربي جعله دكاء و كان وعد ربي حقا “ And it is His -azwj Word: Bring me blocks of iron!’ Until when he had erected between the two cliffs, he said: ‘Blow!’ Until when He made it a fire [18:96] – up to His -azwj Words: a hole in it [18:97] .

He said: ‘This is a Mercy from my Lord, but when the Promise of my Lord comes, He will Make it level, and a Promise of my Lord would always be true [18:97] .

قال: إذا كان قبل يوم القيامة في آخر الزمان انهدم ذلك السد وخرج يأجوج و مأجوج إلى الدنيا وأكلوا الناس وهو قوله: ” حتى إذا فتحت يأجوج ومأجوج وهم من كل حدب ينسلون “ He -asws said: ‘When it will be just before the Day of Qiyamah during the end of times, that dam will be demolished, and Yajouj and Majouj will come out to the world and devour the people, and it is His -azwj Word: ‘ Until when Yajouj and Majouj are released, and they would be descending from every elevation [21:96] ’.

قال: فسار ذو القرنين إلى ناحية المغرب فكان إذا مر بقرية زأر فيها كما يزأر الاسد المغضب، فينبعث في القرية ظلمات ورعد وبرق وصواعق يهلك من ناواه وخالفه، فلم يبلغ مغرب الشمس حتى دان له أهل المشرق والمغرب Zulqarnayn travelled to the areas of the west, and it so happened that whenever he passed by a town, he visited therein just as the angry lion would visit it. So, from one of his horns emitted the darkness, and the thunder, and lightning, and thunderbolts destroying the ones around it and behind it.

He did not reach the west of the sun until the people of the east and the west professed (Religion) to him’. فقال أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام: وذلك قول الله عزوجل: ” إنا مكنا له في الارض وآتيناه من كل شئ سببا ” أي دليلا Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: And that is the Word of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic: Surely We Enabled him in the earth and Gave him a course from every thing [18:84] , i.e., indication.

فقيل له: إن الله في أرضه عينا يقال لها عين الحياة لا يشرب منها ذو روح إلا لم يمت حتى الصيحة It was said to him, ‘For Allah -azwj in the earth, there is a spring called the spring of life. None with a soul will drink from it except he would not die until the Scream’.